Leo 26 = Karma, NOT, Lie, Smolders, Tisiphone, Eros/Psyche MP

Exact squares to the nodes are said to be a crisis points of sorts for us. I see them as a seesaw that swings you in one direction and the other depending on your circumstances and what is there. You may have the ruler of your North Node square the Nodes and be able to use it to take a step closer to the NN's energies with more square-given force than you otherwise may have, or it may tie you to something else in your chart for you to digest before you can get a better alignment with the Nodal axis.

As may be apparent from the subject line already, I happen to have 3811 Karma square the said-to-be-highly-karmic nodes. Proponents of past life theories tell me this suggests messing up in the past (big time, with Algol on South Node), but the trouble with past life views is always that they barely ever tell you anything useful for your current life to live.

Which part of what do you weigh the most? Do you look at the reasonably "Play and have fun, love like a true Leo should" lesson of the sign and the North Node in fifth house, or go into numerology saying such Leo-flattering good things about the number 22 for a birth date in relation to what you through that would supposedly have earned in a past life already? Which is it, grand things in the most immediately past life, or horrendous ones? What are you going to weigh and what matters to you? That part is always up to the person with the chart looked at, no matter what astrology or other things suggest.

Chiron and Neptune currently oppose Karma square the Nodes again, too, making a Grand Cross of it all. I'm defying a transit-description suggesting not to look at astrology at all while Neptune opposes the Sun, with "nothing seeming clear" or whatever your easy description of it all. I defied it even by beginning something when the Sun transited my natal Neptune, a degree before my draconic Ascendant. I defied it even with Atropos right opposite the degree.

Klotho is in Pisces, same as my Moon, I'll be damned if I lose out on Neptune conjunct BAM conjunct draconic Gold near the draconic Ascendant simply because I should somehow be muddled up by transiting Neptune. It's my time now. I have work to do. I can't afford to wait for your supposedly messy transits to pass. Transiting Node is conjunct my draconic Sun, I'm not waiting when there are transits to Karma, even with the natal Sun to come, again.

The Sabian symbol as per the site I keep linking to (Google Phase 147 + Sabian) suggests the following for the currently opposed Leo 26 in any case.

PHASE 147 (LEO 27°): THE LUMINESCENCE OF DAWN IN THE EASTERN SKY.
KEYNOTE: The exalting challenge of new opportunities at the threshold of a new cycle.
"...every day has its dawn, which we should meet with a pure heart and a clear mind. Alpha (dawn) and omega (the concluding peak experience) are opposites, yet the same."
The Keyword here is ILLUMINATION.

It's my time now. Whether on a more transient level or if looking at whatever opportunities the asteroids stashed at the degree offer, it is time for a new beginning.

This, unless of course you take the asteroid 2857 NOT to suggest an empathetic no as some have said, and it all to be a (26955) Lie on top. It's possible to lie to yourself and to say no to what should really be in your cards, your illumination, in so many ways, after all. 10983 Smolders will keep Karma smouldering somewhere on the afterburner, or whatever your mental image of choice, but you tell yourself it's all a lie and say no even so.

Or maybe you choose to say no to the lie and work on the step toward the North Node right from the start. After all, you chose to have something smouldering on the very degree where you parked the midpoint of your Eros and Psyche, all adding to the Leonine fifth house type love lessons to adhere to if you like. Maybe you fluctuate between the South and North node and it's a bit of both.

Whatever it is, it comes with the eventual dawn illuminating everything, one way or another. It may take a while for the Sun to rise, but it is still only two degrees away, rising from the seas of the subconscious. Sooner or later, it will rise.

And what of 466 Tisiphone then? One of the furious sisters, Alekto, was already on the South Node, and now the karmic lesson comes with the Fury known for avenging murders in the midpoint between the nodes? As I said, a girl's gotta have them somewhere. If you're going to say no to lies, you might as well say no to murders as well. There is no killing Karma or its lessons this time around, or Tisiphone will come after you. You probably don't want to deal with her too closely with that nasty-seeming habit of not taking trespasses well. Even when it's quite probable that one shouldn't take well trespasses or killing what should live, as there are always reasons for the Furies to react.

If the Furies, Erinyes, are to be taken as the angry ghosts of the past, it's time to settle and placate them. Whatever the wrongs of the past, generations down even their vengefulness could be risen above and moved past.

There are other interpretations as well, but I have run into all too many people lamenting astrology's seeming negativity to opt for lesser things here. You choose the positions, you choose how you deal with or manifest what is out there. The degree seems to matter more than some other ones based on the couple of hundred asteroids checked so far, since it has several asteroids on it to amplify the message, but how you receive and interpret the message and what you do with it once you have it is up to you.

Taurus 29 = Melchior, Sun/Moon midpoint (draconic Groom)

Melchior is the commonly attributed name for one of the three wise men or astrologer kings in attendance to pay homage to Jesus and give him their gifts after his birth. In Spain, Melchior is said to be the mage representing Europe, but otherwise places like Persia and Babylon are more common suggestions of origin. Midpoints are discussed at length on several sites, but the one between Sun and Moon is said to marry the attributes of the two big luminaries and be the most significant of them.

The Sabian symbol for 29 degrees Taurus is below. The description is again quoted from the Rudhyar related site.

"PHASE 60 (TAURUS 30°): A PEACOCK PARADING ON THE TERRACE OF AN OLD CASTLE.
KEYNOTE: The personal display of inherited gifts.
A great person able to display a multitude of gifts is always, at one level or another, the consummation of a long past of efforts and victories. As a great occultist once wrote: "Adepts are the flowering of their races and cultures." The peacock is the bird consecrated to Venus; in occult tradition the Promethean Spirits who gave to animal mankind the divine gift of self-conscious intelligence had come from "Venus" — which may or may not refer to the physical planet we can observe in the sky.

This is the final symbol of the fourth scene, whose Keyword has been given as "Confirmation." This peacock symbol indeed confirms the social status of the owner of the ancestral estate. It indicates a CONSUMMATION of individual efforts; and it suggests that such a consummation is hardly possible except when a line of "ancestors" — biological or spiritual — forms its base."

When I started this I had not systematically looked at my asteroid positions and had no idea of their individual Sabian symbols. That I would find this midpoint directly tied to an astrologer king after the Ascendant and draconic MC got the "Constellations of stars at night" is rather amusing, but not the last good match.

Melchior seems by nature of the stories to be tied to either where we get or give gifts. The magi are said to tie to Zoroastrianism as well. The Wikipedia article on Angra Mainyu, the evil counterpart of the "Bountiful Spirit" Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrinism, has an interesting tie-in to peacocks, despite their apparently being used as guard "dogs" against intruders in India.

"Zurvanism's principal feature is then the notion that both Ahura Mazda (MP: Ohrmuzd) and Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) were twin brothers, with the former being the epitome of good and the latter being the epitome of evil. Further, this dichotomy was by choice, that is, Angra Mainyu chose to be evil: "It is not that I cannot create anything good, but that I will not." And to prove this, he created the peacock."

Melchior brings gifts and the Sabian displays them. Whatever I know about astrology or anything theoretical otherwise is obviously built on generations of other people's work.

Peacocks are tied to the eyes on their tails, relating to Argos Panoptes with his hundred eyes. Argos guarded Io for Hera for a time before Hermes lulled him to sleep and slay him to free her. Hera then placed the eyes of her faithful servant in the tail of a peacock. Eyes see, as they say. I have Io conjunct my Sun, Hermes opposite them by one degree.

Interestingly, there is a painting of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi with a peacock prominently positioned. Peacocks (or peafowl as I'm now told), are also the national bird of India, with their tails renewing every year for a symbol of renewal. This site points out their closeness to legendary phoenixes. This one says they "prefer peace and harmony and will try to avoid commotion".

I'll endeavour to talk more about the potentials of Groom once I get around to 25 Capricorn, natally "A Nature Sprit Dancing In The Iridescent Mist Of A Waterfall," but for now shall merely be amused over a potential mate or a partner, a groom to be, matching the Sun/Moon midpoint on the karmic, nodal level. As one would possibly expect as well in an ideal case, but even so.